You would think that instead of making a big hoopla, if someone in the press really wanted to help, rather than report a story to get ratings, they would just have used their own credit card to buy the woman the ipad and have the woman pay them back. But I guess that's too complicated for today's press. Instead she now has "to wait for apple to take cash for her ipad." Really? Whatever happened to common sense.

If a supermarket suddenly stopped accepting cash I'd be outraged myself -- but an iPad is hardly necessary for survival. As others have stated, Best Buy will be happy to take her money and so will an Applestore in a few weeks.

Does this work? I thought the whole idea was that you had to have a physical address and name associated which is why they are reluctant to even take their own gift cards on iPads right now. Wouldn't cards from the grocery store have the same issue?

Does this work? I thought the whole idea was that you had to have a physical address and name associated which is why they are reluctant to even take their own gift cards on iPads right now. Wouldn't cards from the grocery store have the same issue?

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You may very well be right

Opening up a savings account for free and then using your debit card would work though. The lady has no real excuse and if she goes ipad'less, it is her own doing

I to paid CASH for my iPad at an Apple store on the day of release. Their cash register was mounted under a display table and the rep had to find it to get my change. It was kind of funny.
Seems there is some misinformation being passed around. Maybe someone in the media is a Windows Fan Boy????
As far as being able to but apps, music ect. on the iPad, there are iTunes gift cards that can be purchased with CASH and loaded onto the iPad.
Cash is KING and the people whom think otherwise is a fool and will someday regret having all that plastic.

I to paid CASH for my iPad at an Apple store on the day of release. Their cash register was mounted under a display table and the rep had to find it to get my change. It was kind of funny.
Seems there is some misinformation being passed around. Maybe someone in the media is a Windows Fan Boy????
As far as being able to but apps, music ect. on the iPad, there are iTunes gift cards that can be purchased with CASH and loaded onto the iPad.
Cash is KING and the people whom think otherwise is a fool and will someday regret having all that plastic.

How about the guy from the California Reinvestment Coalition making this seem like Apple is doing this because it hates US currency? If Apple accepted cash and there were no iPads available for this lady because they were being purchased and resold overseas, he'd be on there complaining that Apple is allowing "criminals" to profit while the disabled/low-income are being overlooked! The guy makes the CRC look like fools.

People love to make something out of nothing. Like most said, there are many ways she could have arranged for the purchase of an iPad. And, she really doesn't have a bank account? Is it really smart to be storing all your cash in a fanny pack? Even my kids know that it is not good to be carrying that much cash around and have opened up bank accounts with debit cards.

Finally, name one law that says a retailer must accept cash? Why aren't people complaining about retailers who have "cash only" rules (they won't take credit cards or checks)? Isn't it the same "inconvenience" for the people that don't carry cash?

This is all just "let's nit-pick Apple because they are popular" media BS.

I to paid CASH for my iPad at an Apple store on the day of release. Their cash register was mounted under a display table and the rep had to find it to get my change. It was kind of funny.
Seems there is some misinformation being passed around. Maybe someone in the media is a Windows Fan Boy????
As far as being able to but apps, music ect. on the iPad, there are iTunes gift cards that can be purchased with CASH and loaded onto the iPad.
Cash is KING and the people whom think otherwise is a fool and will someday regret having all that plastic.

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